Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Tuesday released her campaign launch video for the 2024 presidential race, becoming the first major Republican challenger to Donald Trump’s re-election.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Tuesday released her campaign launch video for the 2024 presidential race, becoming the first major Republican challenger to Donald Trump’s re-election.
Haley, who served as Trump’s Ambassador to the UN until 2018, seems to signal in the video that she’ll be making a radically different pitch to voters than that of her former boss, with a message of reunifying a divided nation.
The clip opens with shots of her hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina. “The railroad tracks divided the town by race,” Haley says in a voice-over.
“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants—not Black, not white. I was different. But my mom would always say: ‘Your job is not to focus on the differences, but the similarities.’ And my parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America.”
“Some look at our past as evidence that America’s founding principles are bad. They say the promise of freedom is just made up. Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“You should know this about me, I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels,” she said.
